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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Okay Okay Okay

Okay, I've decided to stop this. My original idea was to keep these terrible videos going until Christmas Day, when I would show a great video with a marvelous song. Actually, I STILL plan to do that, but I have decided that this has become pure torture and it's time to stop. I've got some really, really, REALLY terrible stuff ready, but I'll keep it for another time.

So I'll end the War on Christmas Video Terror with this one which isn't bad; the kids can sing, the production values are much better than those of the Song Master (that's the John Watersy kinda guy), and I like the shoulder-shimmy thang our Singer does. As far as I'm concerned, the song is the Little Drummer Boy of Latin America; I've heard countless versions of this sung by tone-deaf children's choirs as I enter Almacenes and Super Mercados. Yeah, tuki tuki tuki tuki es igual que parrumpa pum pum in my book. And I realize that for some of you all the singing about burritos is only going to make you hungry, but I think you can deal with it.

He's so cute I'm afraid for him. I see an instant gold record in about five years and then a string of bad marriages and tax problems and finally a stint on Dancing With the Stars trying to teach Tyne Daley the salsa. In fact, I feel a public service announcement coming on right now: "Juanito needs your help to escape from instant stardom. Write him some songs without easy hooks and save him from Entertainment Tonight. Won't you write him some better music today?"

Forget the Three Wise men (research shows they only went to Nazareth Community College), forgetthe straw manger (most theologians agree it was aHoward Johnsons), THIS is the true meaning ofChristmas.

If Padre Mickey was REALLY the descendent ofJa'rel and survived the destruction of his home planet when its sun went nova, as he often claims,he would be honest about this and download the video from Youtube to present to any Unbelievers.

UPCOMING ATTRACTIONS: I just showed this video to Juan Carlos (who knows the words since childhood school days) and promises to perform it for me Christmas Morning...now, that´s the spirit of Christmas (we´ll have the Guatemalan version for you shortly)!